Quotes About Reaction

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.

I think I play center field better than I do anywhere else. I have enough speed and enough reaction to know where the ball goes off the bat.

And I think before I was so focused on speed or I was so focused on trying to hit this great putt that I just wasn't reacting to what I was doing. I react when I hit an iron shot, why can't I do that when I'm over the putter?

I've always had good hands, but my reaction time is something goaltending helped me with, being able to track the ball at such a fast speed.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

At the end of the day, man, you can't protect yourself from a haymaker that's coming in toward your face if you don't see it coming.

As man acts, God reacts.